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This April will mark the one-year anniversary of when HBO announced that the award-winning Barry from Alec Berg and series star Bill Hader would be coming back for a third season. Since that time, production on the series was halted (as was the case with dozens of productions around the globe) over the growing and […]

On Sunday, SAG-AFTRA, the Producers Guild of America, and the Joint Policy Committee of the Association of National Advertisers and the American Association of Advertising Agencies announced that on-set commercial production has been halted temporarily in Southern California over COVID outbreaks in the region (with major studios and streamers already on production hiatus until the[...]

The move comes after the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health reached out to the entertainment industry for their voluntary support on Monday as COVID cases and deaths continue to rise throughout the county and the state of California.[caption id="attachment_1191110" align="aligncenter" width="600"] (Photo by: Jordin Althaus/NBC)[/caption]FilmLA posted excerpts from the county health department on[...]

Only a day after the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health urged television and film productions to pause productions in light of the surging number of COVID-19 cases and deaths, CBS Studios is delaying the production-return dates for five series coming off their holiday breaks. CBS' NCIS, NCIS Los Angeles, and Seal Team, as […]

For those unaware, Animal Kingdom is not a nature documentary, but instead a "lively" TNT action-drama about Southern California's best family of bank robbers Think of it as the cool surfer cousin of Sons of Anarchy All that aside, I'm not here to convince you to watch it this time or even to review it.Or[...]

Ex-America's Got Talent judge Gabrielle Union is taking her harassment, discrimination, and retaliation complaints against the show's producers to court, filing a complaint on Thursday in the state of California against FremantleMedia, Simon Cowell’s Syco, and NBCUniversal (with reports that Union will also file a separate suit against Cowell) While the complaint covers many of[...]

Andrew Cuomo and California Gov Gavin Newsom are hearing from Hollywood The Industry-Wide Labor-Management Safety Committee Task Force has submitted a 22-page set of recommendations and guidelines to be considered by their respective states for the resumption of film, TV, and streaming productions New York and California represent the states with the highest number of[...]

Comic Hero University of Fullerton, California  has been giving away free comic books where one may not expect it, inside students school lunches Even though schools have been shut down, school districts have been handing out lunches to those students who need them And with a little extra reading time on their hands right now,[...]

Only two episodes in and Showtime's Penny Dreadful: City of Angels is already putting Det. Tiago Vega (Daniel Zovatto) and Det. Lewis Michener (Nathan Lane) through the wringer. The last episode saw the detectives dealing with the impact of the riot while their investigation into the deaths of the Hazlett family brought them to the doorsteps […]

This Saturday would have been Free Comic Book Day. Last night Steve Geppi told us that it would be restaged in the autumn. The comic book store Collector's Paradise is planning something different dubbed, Stay Away Comic Book Day. In a message to readers, they state; If you know our stores, you must know that […]

Ryan Higgins of Comics Conspiracy in Sunnyvale, California has informed customers that he will only be ordering for subscriptions and special orders from now on, and no longer stocking any comic books 'for the shelf' So if customers want stuff, a) they have to tell him and b) they have to tell him now, as[...]

Travelers from the two major Disney theme parks in California and Florida of Star Wars Galaxy’s Edge will have to contend with a souvenir ban of the spherical “thermal detonator” Coke bottles, because of Transportation Security Administration (TSA) says it looks like a replica explosive The $5 Coke bottles are among over a 1,000 unique[...]

Welcome to my new favorite episode of TNT's Animal Kingdom! Come in, get comfortable, enjoy some of the cake and champagne I set out, because "Ambo" gets wild and crazy – ier, crazier than usual. Well, on a crazy scale of one to Pope, let's put it at like an eleven… hundred. Shall we begin? […]

Hot on the heels of last week's fourth season premiere, the second episode of TNT's Animal Kingdom "Angela" packs just a hard a punch as its season lead-in. Of course, if you haven't seen last week's episode "Janine", there are of course hella spoilers. If you haven't seen it and intend to, you should probably […]

What do you do if you are the season's best new show, but you reach your season finale without having been renewed for a second season? You bring in the big guns… Walking on shift in the beginning of ABC The Rookie's season 1 finale "Free Fall," rookies Nolan (Nathan Fillion), Chen (Melissa O'Neil), and […]

The freshman season of ABC's The Rookie has been a whirlwind ride-along with Mid-Wilshire LAPD rookies Lucy Chen (Melissa O'Neil), Jackson West (Titus Makin Jr.), and John Nolan (Nathan Fillion). In this week's episode "The Checklist," the rookies are preparing for their six month exams and moving to the next phase of their training. But […]

Showtime's sequel series Penny Dreadful: City of Angels is welcoming back a familar face from the original series: Rory Kinnear (The Creature) is set to return to the franchise in a pivotal role. Kinnear joins Daniel Zovatto, Natalie Dormer, Jessica Garza, Johnathan Nieves, Nathan Lane, and Adriana Barraza on the follow-up to Penny Dreadful from the original series' creator, […]

We'll be the first ones to admit it: waiting for April 24th to roll around for YouTube Originals' Cobra Kai to return for its second season is taking forever. Coming off an amazingly well-received – by viewers and critics alike –  freshmen season, Jon Hurwitz  (Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle), Josh Heald (Hot Tub Time Machine), […]

Stephen Dorff just landed the lead on the pilot for a FOX police drama, tentatively titled Deputy. The show will be a western-themed show set in modern day Los Angeles, with Dorff playing a character not unlike Roland West – the Arkansas Police detective he portrayed on season three of HBO's True Detective. The project is […]

Some exciting casting news for all of the "Dreadfuls" out there: Showtime's sequel series Penny Dreadful: City of Angels has cast The Purge alumna Jessica Garza and Johnathan Nieves (New Amsterdam) as series regulars. Garza and Nieves join Daniel Zovatto (Fear the Walking Dead) on the follow-up to Penny Dreadful from the original series' creator, writer and […]